With much prompting from Rashmi and others, I’ve learned to post things on SlideShare.

My first experiment is the slides from my presentation, The Dawning of the Age of Experience.

Are you looking for our weekly podcast? Thanks to next week’s User Interface 12 Conference, we’re extra busy around the office, so we’ve put the podcast series on temporary hiatus for these two weeks. If you’re subscribed you won’t miss a beat, when the next one comes out, it’ll magically arrive on your computer. If [...]

If users are waiting for content and not doing anything else, they’ll see that as painful. It would be the equivalent of an engaging live instructor, in a classroom, suddenly becoming silent for minutes at a time. It’s distracting to the educational process and not helping the user with their goal — to learn the material.

Statistical significance revolves around having enough participants to make your findings valid. However, the number of participants necessary can vary widely, depending on what you’re studying and how. Join us for a podcast that will help you understand how to make this determination for your projects.

The landscape for building applications is always changing. In the ’80s, we built them out of “dumb terminals” and DOS screens. In the ’90s, we used GUIs. In this millennium, we get browser-based technologies, like Flash, Flex, Javascript, and Ajax (and now new technologies on the horizon, such as Adobe’s AIR and Microsoft’s Silverlight). Whenever [...]

Like many of us, Cameron Moll works in a large, complex organization. This means managing design decisions and wrestling (often inflexible) enterprise technology. He talked to me about how he has integrated his real-world experiences into his UI12 tutorial and how he is working on bringing elegance and great function to his complex work projects.

The user, a frequent traveler, wanted to find ways to impress his new girlfriend. WhiteTie, a luxury concierge and VIP service, seems to be just the ticket. To ensure this is what he wanted, he visited the WhiteTie web site and started to look at the What We Offer links in the center of the [...]

Our friend Cameron Moll has an outline and video preview of his upcoming UI12 Full-day tutorial up on his blog. Cameron works for the LDS Church and has assembled a lot of real-world examples of web design in a large organization. Cameron oversees the creation of highly flexible interfaces that can be repurposed as needed [...]

We’re getting reports from folks that Amazon is about to roll out a new navigation scheme. Some people already are part of their test audience and now seeing it. Amazon’s New Look What’s notable is they ridded themselves of the the old tabbed interface, which goes back to Amazon’s initial designs. The new vertical orientation [...]

In last week’s issue of our email newsletter, UIEtips, we published a fantastic article written by Luke Wroblewski, a Principal Designer at Yahoo!, where he discusses tips for improving web forms and impacting user success. Today, we published the second part of the article where Luke shares additional design tips by taking a closer look [...]